OK, Brendan Fraser, enough already! Get back into a decent drama or comedy, and give it a rest with the family-action fare. This time out, Fraser plays a dude who can make stuff in books come to life when he reads them, because hes a so-called Silver Tongue. The movie boasts a decent cast (Helen Mirren, Paul Bettany, Jim Broadbent) but has a serious lack of focus. Apart from an interesting smoky-looking monster thing during the finale, the action is uninteresting. Andy Serkis is a gigantic bore as the films villain, and it doesnt help that his goals and objective arent made terribly clear. It is sad to see the likes of Mirren and Bettany slumming in crap like this. I expect it from Fraser. The man can be quite effective, but he has a power for choosing lousy action flicks. This is one of them, and its time for his career to take a different course.
ByBob Grimm